Habits are (im)possible to change

Posted on 07.06.2026 · 6 min

Did you know that we always start putting on our shoes with the same foot? At some point in life, our brain formed a habit of not thinking too long about the "problem of the world" and automatically choosing the same foot. Almost always. Every day. The same foot, without realizing why. We have a large number of such automatic behaviors: simple, complex, physical, conversational, mental. But what if we don't want to put on our shoes this way, and want to do it differently? Is it possible to change this "automation", and do we even need to?

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